R/Fantasy Bingo 2023 TBR!
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Check out what I hope to read for Reddit Fantasy Bingo this year!
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Black Sci-fi Authors - Octavia E Butler, Nicky Drayden, Rivers Solomon, Caldwell Turnbull, Nalo Hopkinson, NE Davenport, Temi Oh just to name a few!
THANK YOU! I will be looking up all these. Also I'm dumb. I loved Blood Trials and need to read the sequel
I think The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson would fit the multiverse prompt!
I believe The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson would work for the Multiverses prompt too
Good to know!
Nice video Mel 😊
Elemental magic: zodiac academy 👀 also the nature of witches. 😁
I completely forgot Zodiac had elemental magic! I'll probably do the sequel
Watching this very late, but a few ideas :
Superheroes: I'm planning either Steelheart (been meaning to try some Sanderson) or maybe Variant Lost (sounds like it has super-powered people, but idk if it'll count)
Magical realism: I've been meaning to read 100 Years of Solitude and The Aleph, but neither count for HM. So I might do Violeta by Isabel Allende. Rec I've read: Spells for Forgetting
5 short stories: I might put The Aleph here so that it counts for HM (have heard wonderful things about Borges)
Myths/retellings: I have a ton of options for this one, but I'll probably do The Severed Thread (Sleeping Beauty), Daughter of the Moon Goddess, The Kane Chronicles, or Palace of Illusions (Indian epic) - Recs I've read: Spinning Silver, The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea, A Dowry of Blood
Thanks for the ideas! It’s so cool to see everyone participating
I haven't read Good Omens too. 😅
I am not into anthologies too often. I received a gift which was a book that is an anthology in 2018. I still haven't picked it up. 😅
Thanks for sharing Coby Zucker, Tade Thompson, Jeff Wheeler.
Yeah I prefer longer length stories agreed
For the multiverse prompt, I think Bad Gods by Gaie Sebold might work.
Good to know!
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance would count for a Queernorm setting. The country in which most of the book takes place is queernorm
Oh good to know! I will look it up
For published in the 2000’s I recommend city of bones
I’ve read this one but thanks for the rec!
I love this bingo every year, so fun to make the TBR. Some suggestions: For 2023 I've got Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (would also fit for POC author). For elemental magic one of the Broken Earth books by NK Jemisin, and for queernorm either A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland or the Rook and Rose series by MA Carrick. Inda is also published in the 2000s if you swap that one out!
Thank you for the suggestions!
Magical realism - some (not all) of Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s books would work, Jonathan Strange, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Ninth House (possibly - the wider world doesn’t know about the societies/magic, right?)
Thanks for the recommendations!
@@MelLenoreReads Not a problem. I started and put down Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell because I wasn’t in the mood and now I have to decide if this is the year I finally finish. 🙈
For Myths and Retellings, I really liked the Witch’s Heart and Kaikeyi.
Thank you!
Elemental magic: promise of blood
Magical realism: History of wild places or Spells for forgetting
Poc author: Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor or any of her books, they are all afro-futurism
Didn’t know promise had elemental magic!
Octavia Butler is a great sci-fi/speculative fiction POC author. For elemental magic, “Fate of Flames” by Sarah Raughley would count for this one. For myths and retellings, The Ballad of Black Tom (a retelling of HP Lovecraft’s “The Horror at the Hook”) by Victor LaValle. Also, just realized, all of these authors are POC, lol.
Thank you for the recommendations!
Highly recommend The Mask of Mirrors by M.A. Carrick for Queernorm.
Thanks!
Seven faceless saints by MK Lobb is published this year (2023) and I think might be a debut
Good to know!
Black Sci Fi: Octavia Butler. I’m reading Parable of the Sower for that
Then for retelling, I’m reading the Witch’s Heart by Gwenevieve G (cannot spell 😂)
Good to know! Thanks for the recommendations
For Elemental Magic, you could read Air Awakens by Elise Kova. It’s YA, very short, and indie! I really enjoyed what I’ve read of the series so far.
Oh good to know! I'll check this out
Totally putting The Stardust Thief down for Middle Eastern. Also Multiverse sounds like portal fantasy based on the description, no?
Portal yes, but for hard mode, they can't walk through a literal door. I hope we like Stardust!
Love this!! Although I should have made my own tbr before watching your video because now I just want to choose all the same books lolololol
Hehe I see lots of buddy reads in our future
For your 2023 choice (and also debut author), I would like to recommend No Heart for a Thief by James Lloyd Dulin. It was published Jan. 2023 and is his first book. I reviewed it in my March end-of-month wrap-up (if seeing that helps - dunno). But I really liked it. I hope this helps you out.
Yes! I’ve been really wanting to get to this one!
@@MelLenoreReads I looked forward to hearing your thought on it! Good luck with the rest of your Bingo Board!
This sounds so fun!
For Elemental magic, any of the Zodiac Academy books would count for this if you wanted to add the sequel(s).
Oh good idea
For Multiverses I recommend The Space Between Worlds! Amazing story and very fun. And yes, Hench would totally also count for superheroes. This looks so fun, I might give it a go!
You should definitely do it!
Features robots: In the lives of puppets may work 🤔
Yes it would as the first character you meet is not human and is a robot
Good to know!
This is a cool idea. Just read Piranesi last month and absolutely loved it! Hopefully it will work for you, too.
Great to know!
I might try this bingo this time! I'm definitely using some of your tbr :D
Go for it! Let me know what you end up picking
This is the first year I'm going to try this and I'm excited! What do you get if you submit the board?
I don’t know that they did prizes last year. All the info should come up if you Google r fantasy Reddit to see for this year!
Elemental magic one - a book duology based on the Avatar: The Last Airbender show - it's a prequel duology about a previous incarnation of the avatar - title of the first one is The Rise of Kyoshi
Good to know!
Bottom of TBR: a hard mode for me would have been a YA one! 😂
Magical Realism: Also don't like this prompt. The Starless Sea or The Night Tiger will be my pick (that one has even been a Reese's book club pick).
Mundane jobs: Mystery ssf should also count, police, PI.
Angels and demons: Witch King definitly fits hard mode.
Horror: Hate this one. A novella for me for sure.
Self pub: Wrote reviews in my notes so my plans are up in the air for now.
Multiverses: Beyonders, at least book 1 and 2.
Queernorm: Not your sidekick (YA), Witch King.
Need to edit my own video for this, my editing program has crashed twice though...
Oh witch king. I did not know that!
@@MelLenoreReads Its' so good! (At least to the halfway point) But I'm a Wells stan so ofc I would think that. 😅
These are the 2023 debuts that I'm looking forward to:
Shield Maiden by Sharon Emmerichs (this one looks pretty historical, possibly more so than works for most)
Shanghai Immortal by A.Y. Chao
Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown (novella though)
Daughters of Izdihar by Hadeer Elsbai
Thanks for the suggestions! I’ll look these up
I'm tentatively planning to take part. Even Though I Knew The End is a good novella for angels, if you haven't read it. I do highly recommend the Inda series, though someone else who has read it more recently might be better to judge if it's queernorm. Queerness is acknowledged, but I feel like it's still somewhat stigmatized? Sex and sexuality are a big part of the world building, though maybe not as much in the first book when the main characters are younger.
Thank you for the suggestions. You definitely should participate!
you're all making me want to attempt this...
multiverse - I'm thinking Space Between Worlds would work for this - I don't remember exactly how they shift but I don't think it's just a door? can't swear though - feel like there would be more too that I've read but my brain is blank lol
Rosewater I liked okay but didn't continue - so curious to hear your thoughts and maybe that will make me rethink continuing; I am planning some Octavia Butler scifi this month
I sadly DNFed space between worlds. Good to know on Rosewater. I actually forgot I have the second Blood Trials
Did you ever read Dark Matter by Blake Crouch? That's a good example of alternate universes though he literally walks through doors to get to them (so not hard mode).
I have read this!
Aaaaa i wanna do it too 👀🙈
Do it!!
Helm of Midnight by Marina Lostetter is a queernorm setting! I’m reading it for Realmathon right now.
Ohhh good to know
StoryGraph has opened the Bingo list r/fantasy Book Bingo 2023😅
Oh that's cool!
Infinity Gate 100% counts for both the prompt and the hard mode.
WOOOO. I can't wait to read it
Wait for the book club one you have to actually participate? You can't just read a past one on your own or use a book your read with your own club?
If you’re going to submit it yes. If you’re not submitting I think you could stretch it!
@@MelLenoreReads nooo that means I'm gonna need to read about superheroes😭
For hard mode only, you can use past book clubs if you want easy mode
For queernorm world you can totally use the next Chorus of Dragons series (though it varies from place to place in that world)
Would also recommend Mask of Mirrors but I know you didn’t love that
Oh good shout
Sadly that wasn’t for me. But someone else might can use it!